Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Quitting is leading too.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.